Lara Logan in Cairo on Friday before she suffered a sustained beating and gang sexual assault. Image: CBS

I haven’t always had kind words for CBS News, but I’ve always admired reporter Lara Logan’s guts and willingness to report on the ground and on the battlefield around the world — even if I didn’t agree with her perspective.

She was flown back to the U.S. and is in a New York hospital recovering. There is little detail about who the assailants are at this point.

But this much can be said:

Damn the animals who are responsible. Damn them.

Please keep this brave journalist and mother of two in your thoughts and prayers:

On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.